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“RETIREMENT OF ALLEN J. WELTMANN” mentioning the U.S. Dept. of Commerce was published in the Extensions of Remarks section on pages E1934 on Oct. 11, 2004.
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RETIREMENT OF ALLEN J. WELTMANN
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HON. MICHAEL G. OXLEY
of ohio
in the house of representatives
Friday, October 8, 2004
Mr. OXLEY. Mr. Speaker, we reach the close of the 108th Congress, I rise to note the retirement of Allen J. Weltmann after 39 years of service to PricewaterhouseCoopers. Allen is a Certified Public Accountant and joined the legacy firm of Coopers & Lybrand in 1965 after graduating from Penn State. Price Waterhouse and Coopers & Lybrand merged in 1998.
Allen began his career as an auditor in Syracuse before moving on to Philadelphia and New York. He started the firm's first government affairs unit in 1978 and has been one of the accounting profession's principal spokespersons in the public policy arena for 20 years. In that role I have worked with him on several landmark pieces of securities legislation, including the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, the Securities Litigation Uniform Standards Act of 1998 and the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Allen has always been held in esteem by members of Congress and his colleagues in the private sector for his grasp of technical detail and professional demeanor.
In addition to his work on accounting policy, Allen served as the Working Chair of the Transatlantic Business Dialogue, a collaboration of US and EU businesses working to reduce trade barriers between countries. He also advises the Department of Commerce on accounting issues through his seat on the Industry Services Advisory Council.
Allen belongs to the Pennsylvania Institute of Certified Public Accountants and the Greater Washington Society of Certified Public Accountants. He and his wife, Judi, live in Chevy Chase, Maryland and have four children and eight grandchildren. He plans to remain in the Washington area and to serve as Chairman of the Libraries Development Advisory Board of Penn State.
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